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Homemade Styrofoam cooler incubatorThank you! I've now had my 2nd successful hatch with it, and I will say that the reptile thermostat has been a life saver! I went out and bought...- MandyMusshafen
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Homemade Styrofoam cooler incubatorI have everything to make one except lights and window panes and hope to order them this week (if I can find what I need online!) I'm using...- McChooky
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MiniBatorI don't think so, I never made modifications to this build as I was a bit overly focused on my cabinet incubator. Why incubate two eggs when you...- BantyChooks
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Latest reviews
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Homemade Egg Incubator - No Gas! No Electricity!Good formatting, interesting concept, but needs a lot of details on hatch results and how to keep temperatures stable enough to hatch. What...
- BantyChooks
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Improving hatch rates: a few tweaks plus a Little Giant Still Air Incubator (#9300) hackNeeds more information on fan placement, wiring, etc but overall good process and thanks for the results!
- BantyChooks
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Large Brooder converts to chicken crateGreat visuals, photos, and explanations so anyone could build this. This article is a great example/standard for others writing how to build...- Debbie292d
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Homemade Styrofoam cooler incubatorFive stars for coming back and updating it with tweaks and results! Thanks.
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Ohio brooder with Temperature controls and a collapsible brooder for storage.Very nice and great photos.
- Debbie292d
Incubators & Brooders
Over 100 chicken brooders and incubators. Pictures, designs, and plans.
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The Moonshiner's Pepsi Cooler Incubator
- The Moonshiner
- 5 min read
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- Reaction score: 23
- Comments: 5
- Reviews: 17
My Pepsi cooler incubator build It all started one day when I drove past a garage sale and saw this Pepsi cooler. I instantly thought... -
Short on Time? Recycle-a-Prefab Brooder
- rosemarythyme
- 10 min read
- Views: 27K
- Reaction score: 50
- Comments: 19
- Reviews: 16
or: How I learned to stop worrying and love brooding outdoors! Contents: Building the Brooder Making a Mama Heating Pad Early Integration... -
Setting up a Chick Brooder 🐥
- CHlCKEN
- 9 min read
- Views: 15K
- Reaction score: 32
- Comments: 50
- Reviews: 14
This article offers tips on setting up a brooder, as well as what kind of brooder to setup. It also touches on Heat Plates and their comparison to... -
Pseudo Brooder Heater 'Plate'
- aart
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- 3 min read
- Views: 30K
- Reaction score: 22
- Comments: 16
- Reviews: 6
There were several discussions around March 2014 in multiple threads in multiple sub forums about using a people heating pad to simulate the... -
Amferro103s Homemade Chicken Brooder
- amferro103
- 2 min read
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- Reaction score: 17
- Comments: 50
- Reviews: 15
HomeMade Brooder After deciding we were hooked on hatching we decided to build a durable brooder that we could us over and over. We... -
How I made a Mama Heating Pad Plate
- feathermaid
- 3 min read
- Views: 20K
- Reaction score: 12
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- Reviews: 9
I love this method of raising chicks. It has worked so well for my last two small broods, and those babies have grown up happy, healthy and... -
Yorkshire coops guinea cage brooder
- Yorkshire Coop
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- 1 min read
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- Reaction score: 9
- Comments: 6
- Reviews: 6
This is my guinea cage brooder with Brinsea Eco glow heat plate. Ideal for indoor use for the first couple of weeks after hatching. No risk of... -
Run to Outdoor Brooder Conversion
- 3KillerBs
- 4 min read
- Views: 6K
- Reaction score: 26
- Comments: 4
- Reviews: 6
The only accurate word to describe this build is "Rednecked" -- but that's fine because while I was born a Yankee, rural North Carolina is where I... -
My coop brooder and Integration
- blackdog043
- 3 min read
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- Reaction score: 37
- Comments: 17
- Reviews: 6
I use a coop brooder with the Mama heat pad. At four weeks, I use a panic door panel for the brooder, to let the chicks interact with the big... -
Franken-bator -- Converting a cheap yellow topped model with the Incukit Mini
- Redhead Rae
- 8 min read
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- Reaction score: 10
- Comments: 16
- Reviews: 3
Note: after 2 years of use, I've come to the conclusion that these two incubators are only really good for lock down incubators. I thought it... -
Building the BinBator
- BantyChooks
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- 8 min read
- Views: 12K
- Reaction score: 9
- Comments: 11
- Reviews: 6
After becoming dissatisfied with my Little Giant's propensity to temperature swings, I went on the market for a new incubator. I wanted something... -
Harris Farms Nurture Right 360 Incubator (Updated)
- CluckNDoodle
- 6 min read
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- Reaction score: 6
- Comments: 2
- Reviews: 6
I originally posted this in the "Incubating & Hatching Eggs" forum and it was recommended to me that I should make it an article. I have updated... -
DIY Chicken TV Brooder
- K0k0shka
- 5 min read
- Views: 5K
- Reaction score: 11
- Comments: 7
- Reviews: 5
One of the reasons I got chickens was so that my kids could have the opportunity to grow up with animals, the way I did. So it made sense to start... -
Large Brooder converts to chicken crate
- dalgal
- 6 min read
- Views: 821
- Reaction score: 1
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- Reviews: 5
This turned out to be a great brooder design with multiple uses. It can hold up to 40 small chicks, used as a small grow out, or 1 or 2 section... -
Emergency Chick Brooder for Power Outages
- Redhead Rae
- 4 min read
- Views: 5K
- Reaction score: 20
- Comments: 6
- Reviews: 6
Imagine this, you wake up in the middle of the night and the power is out. You get up, set up the emergency lights in the house, call the power... -
Modified Little Giant Incubator for Hatching Success!
- BirdsBeesTrees
- 2 min read
- Views: 4K
- Reaction score: 4
- Comments: 9
- Reviews: 5
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How to Make a Cooler Incubator
- venymae
- 8 min read
- Views: 34K
- Reaction score: 8
- Comments: 1
- Reviews: 4
How to Make a Basic Cooler Incubator Easy Instructions for Making you own High Quality Incubator As of 2017, a cooler incubator will cost you... -
Indoor Chick Brooder and Grow Out Pen
- fraufaulkner
- 3 min read
- Views: 34K
- Reaction score: 15
- Comments: 7
- Reviews: 7
I thought I would share how our indoor brooder set up looks and what we did when they needed more space but still didn't have a finished coop yet...